{"id":10029,"date":"2021-05-26T15:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T22:05:48","slug":"ivermectin-for-the-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-randomized-controlled-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/26\/ivermectin-for-the-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-randomized-controlled-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivermectin for the Treatment of COVID-19 A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A systematic review and meta-analysis (n = 10 studies, n = 1,173 patients) of randomized controlled trials found that the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 did not reduce all-cause mortality, length of hospitalization, adverse events, or viral clearance. Trials of ivermectin for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries (N=9) and Spain were included. The authors note that the quality of evidence was low or very low for all outcomes but concluded their results do not support the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roman et al. (May 25, 2021). Ivermectin for the Treatment of COVID-19 A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Pre-print downloaded May 26 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.21.21257595\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.21.21257595<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A systematic review and meta-analysis (n = 10 studies, n = 1,173 patients) of randomized controlled trials found that the use of ivermectin for treatment of COVID-19 did not reduce all-cause mortality, length of hospitalization, adverse events, or viral clearance. Trials of ivermectin for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/26\/ivermectin-for-the-treatment-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-randomized-controlled-trials\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-10029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10030,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}